DW BUREAU / Mohali A workshop on "Extended Reality (XR)" was organised by the University School of Sciences at Rayat Bahra University. Dr. Rita Sharma welcomed the resource person, Dr. Ashwani Kumar, Associate Professor in Physics at Monmouth College Illinois, USA. It was an interactive session and the students and the faculty members were enthusiastic about the content of the talk. The experience of Dr. Ashwani Kumar and his clarity of the subject satisfied the students' queries. Many students expressed keen interest to further enhance their knowledge in this futuristic technology and requested to be guided in future also by conducting more such workshops and interactions. Dr Parvinder Singh, Vice-Chancellor, Rayat Bahra University, thanked Dr. Ashwani Kumar for his enlightening talk on XR. He emphasised that this technology had wide applications in all fields including sciences, medical sciences, tourism, culture in addition to teaching in classrooms. Dr. Ashwani gave a live demonstration of how to use XR technology to have real life experiences of different places in the world while sitting at your own place. He also demonstrated the laboratory experimentation through virtual reality. He highlighted the benefits of using this technology to prevent accidents caused by harmful chemicals and safe handling of sensitive equipment. (editor@dailyworld.in)